Method, device and system for webpage transcoding

ABSTRACT

This disclosure discloses a method, device and system for webpage transcoding. The method comprises: obtaining a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document from a target website based on a client request; parsing the HTML document, and when it is detected that the HTML document contains picture information, notifying a picture processor and downloading individual sub-resources except for the picture information from the target website; transcoding the downloaded individual sub-resources, and sending them to the client after the completion of transcoding, wherein reserving a typesetting space for the picture information when transcoding; obtaining the picture information in the HTML document fed back by the picture processor, and transcoding the picture information and then sending it to the client. In this disclosure, the function of downloading picture information is handled by a picture processor, rather than a transcoding server, thereby realizing a transition of the transcoding procedure from a traditional serial processing mode to a parallel processing mode, saving resources of the transcoding server, and greatly improving the throughput and response capacities.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The disclosure relates to the field of Internet technology, and inparticular, to a method, device and system for webpage transcoding.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As shown in FIG. 1, a server for webpage transcoding re-typesets(namely, transcodes) a webpage in order that the webpage has a gooddisplay effect on a small screen mobile device, and will generally use aprivate protocol to further compress flow. Nowadays, a way of atranscoding server implementing transcoding is as shown in FIG. 2, andthe particular transcoding workflow comprises:

step 1: a client sending a request for accessing a webpage to thetranscoding server;

step 2: the transcoding server sending a request for an HTML (HypertextMarkup Language) document to a target website after receiving therequest for accessing a webpage;

step 3: the target website responding to the request for an HTMLdocument;

step 4: the transcoding server parsing the HTML document and obtainingindividual sub-resources to be downloaded; wherein the individualsub-resources comprise, but are not limited to, a script, a picture anda CSS (Cascading Style Sheet);

step 5: the transcoding server downloading the individual sub-resourcesfrom the target website;

step 6: the transcoding server transcoding the downloaded individualsub-resources, and after the completion of transcoding, sending them tothe client as a response to the client's request.

It can be seen from the above transcoding workflow that, after thecompletion of parsing the HTML document, the transcoding serverdownloads individual sub-resources obtained by parsing, and transcodesthe individual sub-resources, that is to say, the whole transcodingprocedure is a procedure of serial processing, and the transcodingoperation will be done only after the completion of downloading all thesub-resources. Such a way of serial processing is still applicable forindividual sub-resources not containing picture information whichoccupies a relatively large space. However, when the sub-resourcescontain ones for which the download is relatively time-consuming, suchas picture information, etc., the adoption of serial processing willgreatly affect the transcoding efficiency (since the picture data isoften large, and consumes the longest time).

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the above problems, the disclosure is proposed to provide amethod, device and system for webpage transcoding, which overcome theabove problems or at least in part solve the above problems.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a method forwebpage transcoding comprising:

obtaining a Hypertext Markup Language HTML document from a targetwebsite based on a client request;

parsing the HTML document, and when it is detected that the HTMLdocument contains picture information, notifying a picture processor anddownloading individual sub-resources except for the picture informationfrom the target website;

transcoding the downloaded individual sub-resources, and sending them tothe client after the completion of transcoding, wherein reserving atypesetting space for the picture information when transcoding; and

obtaining the picture information in the HTML document fed back by thepicture processor, and transcoding the picture information and thensending it to the client.

According to another aspect of the disclosure, there is provided atranscoding server comprising:

a request processing unit configured to receive a request for accessinga webpage from a client and obtain an HTML document from a targetwebsite based on the request;

a parsing & processing unit configured to parse the HTML document, andwhen it is detected that the HTML document contains picture information,notify a picture processor and download individual sub-resources exceptfor the picture information from the target website;

a transcoding unit configured to transcode the downloaded individualsub-resources, and send them to the client after the completion oftranscoding, wherein reserve a typesetting space for the pictureinformation when transcoding; and

a picture responding unit configured to obtain the picture informationin the HTML document fed back by the picture processor, and transcodethe picture information and then send it to the client.

According to a further aspect of the disclosure, there is provided apicture processor comprising:

a notification message receiving unit configured to receive anotification message for obtaining picture information sent by atranscoding server;

a picture obtaining unit configured to detect whether pictureinformation requested to be obtained by a transcoding server has beencached in it, and if yes, feed the cached picture information back tothe transcoding server; or otherwise, download the picture informationfrom a target website and then feed it back to the transcoding server;and

a cache unit configured to cache locally picture information downloadedfrom the target website.

According to a further aspect of the disclosure, there is provided aclient comprising:

a webpage requesting unit configured to send a request message foraccessing a webpage to a transcoding server;

a first display unit configured to receive individual sub-resources sentby the transcoding server for webpage display which are transcoded andhave a reserved picture typesetting space; and

a second display unit configured to receive transcoded pictureinformation sent by the transcoding server, and display the pictureinformation in the reserved picture typesetting space.

According to a still further aspect of the disclosure, there is provideda system for webpage transcoding comprising: the transcoding server ofthe disclosure, the picture processor of the disclosure, and the clientof the disclosure.

The beneficial effects of the disclosure lie in that:

In the technical solution of this disclosure, the function ofdownloading picture information is handled by the picture processor,rather than the transcoding server, then the transcoding server need notwait for the complete download of the picture information before it cando webpage typesetting, such that the client may receive a response morerapidly so as to begin drawing page content; whereas after obtainingpicture information sent by the picture processor, the transcodingserver transcodes the picture information and then sends it to theclient, and at this point, the client only needs to perform an updateoperation for picture information in a drawn page, which greatlyimproves the request response efficiency. For the client, it also neednot send an additional number of requests, which will not waste networkflow generated by the requests.

In addition, in the technical solution of this disclosure, the pictureprocessor employs a cache mechanism, thereby reducing the number ofaccessing a target website and improving the processing capability ofthe system.

The above description is merely an overview of the technical solutionsof the disclosure. In the following particular embodiments of thedisclosure will be illustrated in order that the technical means of thedisclosure can be more clearly understood and thus may be embodiedaccording to the content of the specification, and that the foregoingand other objects, features and advantages of the disclosure can be moreapparent.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those ofordinary skills in the art by reading the following detailed descriptionof the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for the purpose ofshowing the preferred embodiments, and are not considered to be limitingto the disclosure. And throughout the drawings, like reference signs areused to denote like components. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a principle diagram of a deployment of a server for webpagetranscoding;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of transcoding of a transcoding server in theprior art;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a method for webpage transcoding provided bythe first embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of another method for webpage transcodingprovided by the first embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a webpage with a reserved typesetting space displayed by aclient in the first embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a webpage in which picture information in the reservedtypesetting space is updated by the client in the first embodiment ofthe disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a structural schematic diagram of a transcoding serverprovided by the second embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a structural schematic diagram of a picture processor providedby the third embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a structural schematic diagram of a client provided by thefourth embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a structural schematic diagram of a system for webpagetranscoding provided by the fifth embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 11 shows schematically a block diagram of a server configured toperform a method according to the disclosure; and

FIG. 12 shows schematically a storage unit configured to retain or carrya program code implementing a method according to the disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In the following exemplary embodiments of the disclosure will bedescribed in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.While the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure are shown in thedrawings, it will be appreciated that the disclosure may be implementedin various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forthherein. Rather, these embodiments are provided in order for one to beable to more thoroughly understand the disclosure and in order to beable to fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in theart.

In order to solve the problem of a low transcoding efficiency with themethod for webpage transcoding employed in the prior art, embodiments ofthe disclosure provide a method, device and system for webpagetranscoding.

The basic principle of the method, device and system of the embodimentsof the disclosure lies in that: for the processing of pictureinformation, a picture processor is introduced, and the pictureprocessor separates the procedure of downloading a picture out of atranscoding server, such that the transcoding server does not wait forthe completion of picture download, and sends individual sub-resourcesexcept for the picture information which have been downloaded andtranscoded to a client, such that the client first displays theindividual sub-resources except for the picture information; afterreceiving the picture information sent by the picture processor, thetranscoding server transcodes it and then sends it to the client, andthe client then performs resource update for the currently displayedwebpage.

It can be seen that, the embodiments of the disclosure change atraditional serial processing mode to a parallel processing mode, saveresources of the transcoding server, and greatly improve the throughputand response capacities of the transcoding server.

In the following, particular implementation procedures of the disclosurewill be described in detail through several embodiments.

First Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 3, the embodiment of the disclosure provides a methodfor webpage transcoding, which in particular comprises the followingsteps.

In step S301, an HTML document is obtained from a target website basedon a request for accessing a webpage from a client.

In step S302, the HTML document is parsed, and when it is detected thatthe HTML document contains picture information, a picture processor isnotified and individual sub-resources except for the picture informationare downloaded from the target website.

In this step, notifying a picture processor particularly refers tonotifying the picture processor to obtain the picture information andgive a feedback.

In this step, the procedure of downloading individual sub-resourcesexcept for the picture information and the procedure of the pictureprocessor obtaining the picture information after it is notified are aparallel processing procedure.

In step S303, the downloaded individual sub-resources are transcoded,and sent to the client after the completion of transcoding, wherein atypesetting space is reserved for the picture information whentranscoding.

In this step, reserving a typesetting space for the picture informationwhen transcoding particularly comprises:

detecting whether the size information of a picture is contained in theparsed HTML document, and if yes, reserving a typesetting space for thepicture information based on the size information; otherwise, reservinga typesetting space for the picture information based on a preset fixedsize.

Furthermore, in this step, when reserving a typesetting space for thepicture information, the ID of the reserved typesetting space is set tomatch the ID of the picture information.

Furthermore, in this step, when the transcoded individual sub-resourcesare sent to the client, they carry a picture-to-be-transmitted indicatorfor instructing the client to maintain the current connection, and inturn ensuring that the whole actions of the method of the disclosure aredone in one HTTP response.

Furthermore, in this step, after receiving the transcoded individualresources, the client displays a local default picture in the reservedtypesetting space. Preferably, the local default picture displayed bythe client is a waiting-for-download identification picture.

In step S304, the picture information in the HTML document fed back bythe picture processor is obtained, and the picture information istranscoded and then sent to the client.

In this step, the picture information fed back by the picture processormay be obtained employing, but not limited to, one of the following twoways, wherein the embodiment of the disclosure preferably employs thesecond way:

first way: the picture processor directly downloads the pictureinformation from the target website after receiving the notification;and

second way: the picture processor applies a cache technique, which isparticularly that:

the picture processor detects whether the processor itself has cachedthe picture information after receiving the notification, and if yes,obtains the cached picture information and feeds it back; otherwise,downloads the picture information from the target website, and obtainsthe downloaded picture information and feeds it back.

Furthermore, in this step, when the picture information is obtained, thetypesetting space reserved for the picture information is obtained inparticular according to the ID information of the picture information,and the picture information is transcoded based on the reservedtypesetting space.

In the following, the method of the embodiment of the disclosure will befurther described in detail in connection with FIGS. 4-6.

As shown in FIG. 4, the method for webpage transcoding provided by theembodiment of the disclosure particularly comprises the following steps.

In step 1, the client sends a request message for accessing a webpage tothe transcoding server.

In step 2, the transcoding server sends a request for an HTML documentto the target website after receiving the request for accessing awebpage.

In step 3, the target website responds to the request for an HTMLdocument.

In step 4, the transcoding server parses the HTML document, obtainsindividual sub-resources to be downloaded, and when the sub-resourcescontain picture information, notifies the picture processor, anddownloads other individual sub-resources except for the pictureinformation from the target website.

In step 5, after downloading the individual sub-resources except for thepicture information, the transcoding server performs a transcodingoperation, and reserves a typesetting space for the picture informationwhen transcoding.

In this step, a particular implementation of reserving a typesettingspace for the picture information may be:

detecting whether the size information of a picture is contained in theparsed HTML document, and if yes, reserving a typesetting space for thepicture information based on the size information; otherwise, reservinga typesetting space for the picture information based on a preset fixedsize; at the same time, setting IDs for the picture information and thereserved typesetting space, and causing the two IDs to be associated andmatch with each other.

As an example, assuming that in this step, the obtained size informationof the picture is 200×100, namely:

<html>

. . .

<img src=“http://images.example.com/sample.jpg” width=“200”height=“100”/>

. . .

</html>

the transcoding server considers the picture has been downloaded whentypesetting, reserves a space of 200×100 for the picture and numbers thepicture (i.e., ID of the picture).

In step 6, the transcoding server sends the individual sub-resourceswhich have a reserved typesetting space to the client after thecompletion of transcoding.

In this step, when the transcoded individual sub-resources are sent tothe client, a picture-to-be-transmitted indicator is also carried forinstructing the client to continue maintaining the connection with thetranscoding server and wait to receive the picture information.

In step 7, the client performs local display when receiving thetranscoded individual sub-resources.

In this step, when performing local display, the client first displays adefault picture local to the client in the reserved typesetting space,and the effect map is as shown in FIG. 5. Of course, the drawing is onlyillustrated taking a commonly used webpage as an example, and the scopeof the embodiment of the disclosure is not limited by the illustratedwebpage.

In step 8, the picture processor detects whether the processor itselfhas cached the picture information after receiving the notification, andif yes, sends the cached picture information to the transcoding server;otherwise, downloads the picture information from the target website,and sends the downloaded picture information to the transcoding server.

It needs to be noted that the step 8 and the step 5 are two stepsprocessed in parallel.

In step 9, after receiving the picture information sent by the pictureprocessor, the transcoding server transcodes the picture information,and sends the transcoded picture information to the client; and so far,the transcoding server finishes responding to the request for accessinga webpage from the client.

In step 10, after receiving the picture information sent by thetranscoding server, the client updates the currently displayed picturein the reserved typesetting space.

Exactly, in this step, after receiving the picture information, theclient finds the corresponding reserved typesetting space according tothe ID of the picture information, and updates the picture in thereserved typesetting space to the received corresponding pictureinformation.

In particular, after receiving decoded picture information, the clientthen substitutes the picture information for the previous defaultpicture according to the ID information, and the particular effect mapis as shown in FIG. 6.

Of course, the above workflow is only directed to the situation in whichindividual sub-resources to be downloaded contain picture information,and the disclosure also applies to the situation in which no pictureinformation is contained, namely, after the transcoding server parses anHTML document, when it is detected that the HTML document does notcontain picture information, it directly downloads individualsub-resources from the target website, and transcodes the downloadedindividual sub-resources and then sends them to the client.

To sum up, in the method of the embodiment of this disclosure, thedownload of picture information is separated out of the transcodingserver, and is handled by the picture processor, the transcoding serverneed not wait for the complete download of the picture informationbefore it can do webpage typesetting, such that the client may receive aresponse more rapidly so as to begin drawing page content; whereas afterobtaining picture information sent by the picture processor, thetranscoding server transcodes the picture information and then sends itto the client, and at this point, the client only needs to perform anupdate operation for picture information in a drawn page, which greatlyimproves the request response efficiency. And the client also need notsend an additional number of requests, which will not waste network flowgenerated by the requests.

In addition, in the embodiment of this disclosure, for further improvingthe response efficiency, the picture processor employs a cachemechanism, thereby reducing the number of accessing a target website,improving the speed and increasing the processing capability of thesystem.

Second Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 7, the embodiment of the disclosure further provides atranscoding server which particularly comprises:

a request processing unit 710 configured to receive a request foraccessing a webpage from a client and obtain an HTML document from atarget website based on the request;

a parsing & processing unit 720 configured to parse the HTML document,and when it is detected that the HTML document contains pictureinformation, notify a picture processor and downloading individualsub-resources except for the picture information from the targetwebsite;

a transcoding unit 730 configured to transcode the downloaded individualsub-resources, reserve a typesetting space for the picture informationwhen transcoding, and send them to the client after the completion oftranscoding; and

a picture responding unit 740 configured to obtain the pictureinformation in the HTML document fed back by the picture processor, andtranscode the picture information and then send it to the client.

The above are the basic functional modules of the transcoding serverprovided by the embodiment of the disclosure, and in the following, theparticular technical details of the transcoding server of the embodimentof the disclosure implementing the technical objects of the disclosurewill be described by further elucidating functionally the individualfunctional modules.

In particular, the transcoding unit 730 is further configured to, whensending the transcoded individual sub-resources to the client, carry apicture-to-be-transmitted indicator for instructing the client tomaintain the current connection.

The transcoding unit 730 is further configured to detect whether thesize information of a picture is contained in the HTML document parsedby the parsing & processing unit 720, and if yes, reserve a typesettingspace for the picture information based on the size information; orotherwise, reserve a typesetting space for the picture information basedon a preset fixed size.

The transcoding unit 730 is further configured to, when reserving atypesetting space for the picture information, set the ID of thereserved typesetting space to match the ID of the picture information.

The picture responding unit 740 is further configured to, when thepicture information is obtained, obtain the typesetting space reservedfor the picture information according to the ID information of thepicture information, and transcode the picture information based on thereserved typesetting space.

Furthermore, in the embodiment of the disclosure, when it is detectedthat the HTML document does not contain picture information, the parsing& processing unit 720 directly downloads individual sub-resources fromthe target website; whereas the transcoding unit 730 transcodes thedownloaded individual sub-resources and then sends them to the client,thereby accomplishing the procedure of webpage transcoding.

Third Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 8, the embodiment of the disclosure further provides apicture processor which particularly comprises:

a notification message receiving unit 810 configured to receive anotification message for obtaining picture information sent by atranscoding server;

a picture obtaining unit 820 configured to detect whether pictureinformation requested to be obtained by a transcoding server has beencached in it, and if yes, feed the cached picture information back tothe transcoding server; otherwise, download the picture information froma target website and then feed it back to the transcoding server; and

a cache unit 730 configured to cache locally picture informationdownloaded from the target website.

Fourth Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 9, the embodiment of the disclosure further provides aclient comprising:

a webpage requesting unit 910 configured to send a request message foraccessing a webpage to a transcoding server;

a first display unit 920 configured to receive individual sub-resourcesexcept for picture sent by the transcoding server for webpage displaywhich are transcoded and have a reserved picture typesetting space;

a second display unit 930 configured to receive transcoded pictureinformation sent by the transcoding server, and display the pictureinformation in the reserved picture typesetting space.

The above are the basic functional modules of the client provided by theembodiment of the disclosure, and in the following, the particulartechnical details of the client of the embodiment of the disclosureimplementing the technical objects of the disclosure will be describedby further elucidating functionally the individual functional modules.

In particular, the first display unit 920 is further configured to,after receive the transcoded individual sub-resources, detect whether apicture-to-be-transmitted indicator is carried, and if yes, continuemaintaining the connection with the transcoding server.

Preferably, the first display unit 920 is further configured to, whenperforming webpage display, display a local default picture in thereserved picture typesetting space.

The second display unit 930 is further configured to, when receiving thetranscoded picture information sent by the transcoding server, match apicture typesetting space corresponding to the picture information basedon the ID information of the picture information, and display thereceived picture information in the picture typesetting space.

Fifth Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 10, a system for webpage transcoding provided by theembodiment of the disclosure, which system comprises the transcodingserver of the second embodiment, the picture processor of the thirdembodiment, and the client provided by the fourth embodiment.

It needs to be noted that, in case of no confliction, embodiments in thedisclosure and features in the embodiments may be arbitrarily combinedwith each other.

Embodiments of the individual components of the disclosure may beimplemented in hardware, or in a software module running on one or moreprocessors, or in a combination thereof. It will be appreciated by thoseskilled in the art that, in practice, some or all of the functions ofsome or all of the components in a system for webpage transcodingaccording to individual embodiments of the disclosure may be realizedusing a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP). Thedisclosure may also be implemented as a device or apparatus program(e.g., a computer program and a computer program product) for carryingout a part or all of the method as described herein. Such a programimplementing the disclosure may be stored on a computer readable medium,or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may beobtained by downloading it from an Internet website, or provided on acarrier signal, or provided in any other form.

For example, FIG. 11 shows a server which may carry out a method forwebpage transcoding according to the disclosure, e.g., an applicationserver. The sever traditionally comprises a processor 1110 and acomputer program product or a computer readable medium in the form of amemory 1120. The memory 1120 may be an electronic memory such as a flashmemory, an EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory),an EPROM, a hard disk or a ROM. The memory 1120 has a memory space 1130for a program code 1131 for carrying out any method steps in the methodsas described above. For example, the memory space 1130 for a programcode may comprise individual program codes 1131 for carrying outindividual steps in the above methods, respectively. The program codesmay be read out from or written to one or more computer programproducts. These computer program products comprise such a program codecarrier as a hard disk, a compact disk (CD), a memory card or a floppydisk. Such a computer program product is generally a portable orstationary storage unit as described with reference to FIG. 12. Thestorage unit may have a memory segment, a memory space, etc. arrangedsimilarly to the memory 1120 in the server of FIG. 11. The program codemay for example be compressed in an appropriate form. In general, thestorage unit comprises a computer readable code 1131′, i.e., a codewhich may be read by e.g., a processor such as 1110, and when run by aserver, the codes cause the server to carry out individual steps in themethods described above.

“An embodiment”, “the embodiment” or “one or more embodiments” mentionedherein implies that a particular feature, structure or characteristicdescribed in connection with an embodiment is included in at least oneembodiment of the disclosure. In addition, it is to be noted that,examples of a phrase “in an embodiment” herein do not necessarily allrefer to one and the same embodiment.

In the specification provided herein, a plenty of particular details aredescribed. However, it can be appreciated that an embodiment of thedisclosure may be practiced without these particular details. In someembodiments, well known methods, structures and technologies are notillustrated in detail so as not to obscure the understanding of thespecification.

It is to be noted that the above embodiments illustrate rather thanlimit the disclosure, and those skilled in the art may designalternative embodiments without departing the scope of the appendedclaims. In the claims, any reference sign placed between the parenthesesshall not be construed as limiting to a claim. The word “comprise” doesnot exclude the presence of an element or a step not listed in a claim.The word “a” or “an” preceding an element does not exclude the presenceof a plurality of such elements. The disclosure may be implemented bymeans of a hardware comprising several distinct elements and by means ofa suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating severalmeans, several of the means may be embodied by one and the same hardwareitem. Use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not mean anyordering. Such words may be construed as naming.

Furthermore, it is also to be noted that the language used in thedescription is selected mainly for the purpose of readability andteaching, but not selected for explaining or defining the subject matterof the disclosure. Therefore, for those of ordinary skills in the art,many modifications and variations are apparent without departing thescope and spirit of the appended claims. For the scope of thedisclosure, the disclosure of the disclosure is illustrative, but notlimiting, and the scope of the disclosure is defined by the appendedclaims.

1. A method for webpage transcoding, comprising: obtaining a HypertextMarkup Language (HTML) document from a target website based on a clientrequest; parsing the HTML document, and when it is detected that theHTML document contains picture information, notifying a pictureprocessor and downloading individual sub-resources except for thepicture information from the target website; transcoding the downloadedindividual sub-resources, and sending them to the client after thecompletion of transcoding, wherein reserving a typesetting space for thepicture information when transcoding; and obtaining the pictureinformation in the HTML document fed back by the picture processor, andtranscoding the picture information and then sending it to the client.2. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising: carrying apicture-to-be-transmitted indicator when sending the transcodedindividual sub-resources to the client; after receiving the transcodedsub-resources, the client displaying the sub-resources locally,detecting whether a picture-to-be-transmitted indicator is carried, andif yes, continuing maintaining the current connection relationship, andwaiting to receive the picture information.
 3. The method as claimed inclaim 1, wherein reserving a typesetting space for the pictureinformation when transcoding further comprises: detecting whether thesize information of a picture is contained in the parsed HTML document,and if yes, reserving a typesetting space for the picture informationbased on the size information; otherwise, reserving a typesetting spacefor the picture information based on a preset fixed size.
 4. The methodas claimed in claim 1, further comprising: after receiving thenotification, the picture processor detecting whether the processoritself has cached the picture information, and if yes, feeding back thecached picture information; otherwise, downloading the pictureinformation from the target website, and feeding back the downloadedpicture information.
 5. The method as claimed in claim 1, furthercomprising: after receiving the transcoded individual sub-resources, theclient displaying a local default picture in the reserved typesettingspace.
 6. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising: thelocal default picture displayed by the client being awaiting-for-download identification picture indicating that a picture isbeing downloaded.
 7. The method as claimed in claim 1, furthercomprising: when reserving a typesetting space for the pictureinformation, setting the ID of the reserved typesetting space to matchthe ID of the picture information; and when obtaining the pictureinformation, obtaining the typesetting space reserved for the pictureinformation according to the ID information of the picture information,and transcoding the picture information based on the reservedtypesetting space.
 8. The method as claimed in claim 7, furthercomprising: after receiving the transcoded picture information, theclient matching the reserved typesetting space corresponding to thepicture information based on the ID information of the pictureinformation, and displaying the received picture information in thereserved typesetting space.
 9. The method as claimed in claim 1, furthercomprising: when it is detected that no picture information is containedin the HTML document, directly downloading individual sub-resources fromthe target website, and transcoding the downloaded individualsub-resources and then sending them to the client.
 10. A transcodingserver, comprising: at least one processor to execute a plurality ofunits comprising: a request processing unit configured to receive arequest for accessing a webpage from a client and obtain an HTMLdocument from a target website based on the request; a parsing &processing unit configured to parse the HTML document, and when it isdetected that the HTML document contains picture information, notify apicture processor and download individual sub-resources except for thepicture information from the target website; a transcoding unitconfigured to transcode the downloaded individual sub-resources, andsend them to the client after the completion of transcoding, whereinreserve a typesetting space for the picture information whentranscoding; and a picture responding unit configured to obtain thepicture information in the HTML document fed back by the pictureprocessor, and transcode the picture information and then send it to theclient.
 11. The transcoding server as claimed in claim 10, wherein thetranscoding unit is further configured to, when sending the transcodedindividual sub-resources to the client, carry apicture-to-be-transmitted indicator for instructing the client tomaintain the current connection.
 12. The transcoding server as claimedin claim 10, wherein the transcoding unit is further configured todetect whether the size information of a picture is contained in theHTML document parsed by the parsing & processing unit, and if yes,reserve a typesetting space for the picture information based on thesize information; otherwise, reserve a typesetting space for the pictureinformation based on a preset fixed size.
 13. The transcoding server asclaimed in claim 10, wherein the transcoding unit is further configuredto, when reserving a typesetting space for the picture information, setthe ID of the reserved typesetting space to match the ID of the pictureinformation; and the picture responding unit is further configured to,when the picture information is obtained, obtain the typesetting spacereserved for the picture information according to the ID information ofthe picture information, and transcode the picture information based onthe reserved typesetting space.
 14. The transcoding server as claimed inclaim 10, wherein the parsing & processing unit is further configuredto, when it is detected that the HTML document does not contain pictureinformation, directly download individual sub-resources from the targetwebsite; and the transcoding unit is further configured to transcode thedownloaded individual sub-resources and then sends them to the client.15. (canceled)
 16. A client, comprising: at least one processor toexecute a plurality of units comprising: a webpage requesting unitconfigured to send a request message for accessing a webpage to atranscoding server; a first display unit configured to receiveindividual sub-resources sent by the transcoding server for webpagedisplay which are transcoded and have a reserved picture typesettingspace; and a second display unit configured to receive transcodedpicture information sent by the transcoding server, and display thepicture information in the reserved picture typesetting space.
 17. Theclient as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first display unit is furtherconfigured to, after receive the transcoded individual sub-resources,detect whether a picture-to-be-transmitted indicator is carried, and ifyes, continue maintaining the connection with the transcoding server.18. The client as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first display unit isfurther configured to, when performing webpage display, display a localdefault picture in the reserved picture typesetting space.
 19. Theclient as claimed in claim 16, wherein the second display unit isfurther configured to, when receiving the transcoded picture informationsent by the transcoding server, match the picture typesetting spacecorresponding to the picture information based on the ID information ofthe picture information, and display the received picture information inthe picture typesetting space.
 20. (canceled)
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